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Summer Gothmas – Beer, bbq and tunes

Due to the rona the winter edition of Gothmass was sadly a little quiet.So in order to support the Castle Tap we’ve organised an afternoon of beer and tunes live from their beer garden .Featuring us Karkasaurus and friends! Kohl, DJ Source-e:, Duracell Bunny and the church of madness crew. We are going to setup BBQs and then you can bring food to cook on them. Then simply donate a few quid to Beat:Cancer to say thanks for a cracking day and supplying the BBQ + Tunes. Live music stops at 9pm due to the license. Pub is open till […]

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18 June 2022

Church of Madness Vs…

The guests for the 7th outing is just as mysterious to us as it is to you right this second. Plans are under way! Entry, as always, is FREEDoors: 8pm-2am The nearest car park is Q-Park on Chatham street, about a minute from the venue. It is open all night, and secure. A slightly cheaper alternative is the Oracle car park, which is a longer walk, through town. Pre-event drinking establishment of choice for local goths would be the Castle Tap where they serve an excellent selection of proper beers/ales/gins. This is on Castle hill, the bottom end of Carey

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16 September 2022

Church of Madness Vs VGN!

For our fourth outing we will be joined, all the way from Aberdeen, by the ever so popular Virtual Goth Night (https://www.facebook.com/VirtualGothNight) who have kept many people sane over the last few years! Joining Arricc will be Charlie Octogirl (VGN’s Social Shark Wrangler!) Entry, as always, is FREEDoors: 8pm-2am The nearest car park is Q-Park on Chatham street, about a minute from the venue. It is open all night, and secure. A slightly cheaper alternative is the Oracle car park, which is a longer walk, through town. Pre-event drinking establishment of choice for local goths would be the Castle Tap

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12 November 2022

Club Velocity/New Mind presents Kristeen Young + Strange Cities

Yves Tumor, Kate Bush, Diamanda Galas are all attempts to explain hard-to-describe, multi-genre artist, Kristeen Young. But, they are wrong. You can’t find a comparison because there isn’t one, and isn’t that a nice change? She plays piano/keyboard in a dissonant bashing style, sings using a wide range with operatic vocals, and her lyrics eviscerate in a playful way like an afternoon with a Victorian child ghost. You’ll be dead but you will have enjoyed your own life’s kill. And ….speaking of…..her new (self-produced) album, The Beauty Shop, is a song cycle based on the life of a serial killer,

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22 February 2023

Church of Madness Vs Karkasaurus

For our fifth outing the Karkasaurus team are bringing us some chaotic (likely dino related) mayhem, with a more industrial twist. If you saw them on the main stage at Infest a few years back… you know what you’re in for! Dinosaur costumes are fully encouraged! Entry, as always, is FREEDoors: 8pm-2am The nearest car park is Q-Park on Chatham street, about a minute from the venue. It is open all night, and secure. A slightly cheaper alternative is the Oracle car park, which is a longer walk, through town. Pre-event drinking establishment of choice for local goths would be

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18 March 2023

Ghost Dance At Club Velocity

Ghost Dance…… Anne Marie Hurst was the backing vocalist for the Goth Rock group the Elements in Keighley UK (until 1982). In December 1982, she helped form Skeletal Family. After departing from Skeletal Family in 1985, she co-founded Ghost Dance with Gary Marx (formerly of The Sisters of Mercy). Ghost Dance released several indie chart hit singles through Karbon Records, which were later compiled on the ‘Gathering Dust’ album. In 1989 they signed to Chrysalis Records and released the ‘Stop The World’ album and two more singles, with ‘Down To The Wire’ peaking at no.66 in the UK singles chart.

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4 May 2023

Church of Madness Vs Gilly Woo & Rich Deadsignal

Joining us for our 6th outing are Gilly Woo and Rich Deadsignal. Gilly is known for floor fuckin filthy electro and Industrial with some curve balls aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Rich, on the other hand, streams on https://twitch.tv/dj_deadsignal and can be found playing… anything he fancies! He promises to stick to something vaguely relevant this time  Entry, as always, is FREEDoors: 8pm-2am The nearest car park is Q-Park on Chatham street, about a minute from the venue. It is open all night, and secure. A slightly cheaper alternative is the Oracle car park, which is a longer walk, through town. Pre-event

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3 June 2023

Heathen Apostles

LA based The Heathen Apostles-debut UK tour-and they are coming to Reading. If there is such a thing in the current fringe roots genre as a supergroup, it would certainly be the LA based dark roots and gothic country band Heathen Apostles, who includes ex members of Radio Noir (Mather Louth), The Cramps (Chopper Franklin), Kings of Nuthin’ (Thomas Lorioux) and Christian Death (Steve Grey) in its ranks. That is one hell of a line up Page Of SwordsA one man mean song writer machine.The real deal

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21 July 2023

Church of Madness Vs DJ Nollipop

Joining us all the way from Ireland is DJ Nollipop! (https://www.mixcloud.com/noelle-duffy-n%C3%AD-doherty/) DJ Nollipop plays a blend of Punk, Riot Grrrl, 80s cheese, Alternative, Goth, Metal, Irish Folk, Neo Folk, Industrial, EDM and Acid Techno. (She’s also partial to the phenomenon that is Eurovision.) and has been seen providing the entertainment in the Escape bar at Infest Entry, as always, is FREEDoors: 8pm-2am The nearest car park is Q-Park on Chatham street, about a minute from the venue. It is open all night, and secure. A slightly cheaper alternative is the Oracle car park, which is a longer walk, through town.

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16 September 2023

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